8 celebrities with lucrative ‘side businesses’

Pop music diva Beyoncé is about to add “vegan delivery service owner” to her long list of accomplishments. According to the New York Daily News, she has joined forces with her trainer Marco Borges to launch 22 Days Nutrition, a company that will bring three vegan meals a day to your doorstep. The price is $609.84 for 22 days, like the name says.

The singer is no stranger to the entrepreneurial spirit. In 2005, she co-founded the fashion line House of Deréon with her mother, and in October 2014, she partnered with the British fashion retailer TopShop to create Parkwood TopShop Athletic Ltd., a sports and activewear label.

She sure sounds busy, and with her marriage to Jay-Z, life her daughter Blue Ivy and her music career all going strong, you’d think it would be enough. But when the entrepreneurship bug bites you, it’s hard to ignore. FORTUNE presents a list of other female celebrity entrepreneurs who are each living testaments to that fact.

9 celebrities making money off your liquor shelf

Even as singer Justin Timberlake completed his 20/20 Experience World Tour in the final weeks of 2014, he still found time to regularly tweet about his tequila brand to his nearly 40 million Twitter followers.

That dedication and direct access to consumers explains why alcohol brands are choosing to hook up with celebrities. Already a popular practice in the beverage industry, the pace of endorsements and investments by famous names has accelerated in recent years as more celebs look to make money from the increasing popularity of liquor and wine.

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These deals generate great benefits for both celebrities and liquor brands. The brands can boost sales by associating with a well-known actor, or rapper, benefiting from free press when those celebrities go on talk shows, or promote their brands to millions of fans on Twitter and other social media platforms. Celebrities enjoy the benefits of associating with a category that denotes luxury.

“The endorsement by a celebrity really gives consumers the feeling that they can partake in the kind of lifestyle they assume these celebrities are living,” said Michael Stone, CEO of licensing agency Beanstalk.

While many celebrity brands can charge slightly more than the industry average for their liquors or wines, Stone points out that many aren’t priced too out of reach. That’s because the audience for celebrity-backed brands isn’t for the 1%, it is for the larger fan base that wants to buy into the celebrity lifestyle. And, of course, not all celebrity-backed brands are a hit (Donald Trump’s vodka was a notable flop.)

Celebrity tie-ins with alcohol brands have existed for decades, at times endorsed by public figures even without the brand’s consent. While touring in the 1950s, Frank Sinatra sang the praises of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and sales leapt as a result of his unpaid endorsements. But in more recent years, celebrities have taken a more active role. Most deals involve an equity stake of some sort, so the celebrity can benefit from the beverage’s sales for as long as it stays on shelves.

Here are nine booze partnerships, including some of the industry’s greatest hits and a few newer offerings that are just taking off.

5 movie stars who played business execs on-screen

Actor Christian Bale will play late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an upcoming film that traces the technology mogul’s rise from a college dropout to business icon.

The role will require a certain brashness, despondence and elation in keeping with the trajectory of Jobs’ careers. It is just one example of Hollywood’s long obsession with portraying the machinations of business leaders on-screen.

Fortune decided to take a look at some other stars that have played real executives from the corporate world. Here’s some of the top examples.

Weight loss product endorsed by Dr. Oz settles with FTC for $3.5 million

Dr. Mehmet Oz, known to television viewers simply as Dr. Oz, once touted a natural extract to viewers as helpful in losing weight.

On Monday, the company behind the miracle ingredient agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle accusations by the Federal Trade Commission that it used phony science to back up its claims.

Applied Food Sciences had pushed green coffee extract in its advertising as a diet aid. But federal regulators said there was no scientific basis for its marketing.

“Applied Food Sciences knew or should have known that this botched study didn’t prove anything,” said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement. “In publicizing the results, it helped fuel the green coffee phenomenon.”

In June, a group of U.S. lawmakers criticized Dr. Oz for his endorsement of the product, calling it careless and disappointing. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., the chairwoman of the subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance, lashed out at a hearing, saying: “I don’t get why you need to say this stuff when you know it’s not true. When you have this amazing megaphone, and this amazing ability to community, why would you cheapen your show by saying things like that?”

Oz, a graduate of Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, said at the time that he’d use a more critical lens before hawking products on his show. “In addition to exercising an abundance of caution in discussing promising research and products in the future, I look forward to working with all those present today in finding a way to deal with the problems of weight loss scams,” said Oz in a statement.

But Oz also said his motives were sincere in initially touting green coffee extract.

“My job is to be a cheerleader for the audience, when they don’t think they have hope,” he told lawmakers, according to The Hill.

Apple says that celebrity-targeted hack didn’t breach any systems

The hack that resulted in stolen nude images from multiple celebrity accounts was not a result of security breaches in Apple’s systems, including iCloud or Find my iPhone, according to Apple.

Apple AAPL was “outraged” when it learned of the theft and immediately mobilized the company’s engineers to discover exactly how the hackers gained access, the company said in a statement Monday.

“After more than 40 hours of investigation,” the company said. “We have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet.”

There was speculation that “brute-force” programs, which run through random password guesses at rapid speed until it gets a match, were used to gain access to the targeted accounts.

Hackers worked their way into celebrity iCloud accounts and gained access to a trove of nude celebrity photos, raising concerns of Apple AAPL vulnerabilities leading into next week’s announcement of a possible new wallet application.

Illicit photos of top singers and actors, such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna, started to appear on the bulletin board 4chan Sunday. The poster claimed that the images were taken from the celebrities own iPhones and pulled from their personal iCloud accounts after the phones uploaded the images to the backup cloud service, according to reports.

Apple is investigating the leak and released a statement Monday noting that they “take user privacy very seriously.”

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is also stepping in to investigate the hack. They are “aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals and is addressing the matter,” the Los Angeles FBI said in a statement.

Apple has announced a media event on September 9th where it is rumored to be showing off new products and services, including a new version of the iPhone and an advanced mobile payment platform.

Jennifer Aniston’s company launches Spanx for the face

FORTUNE — There’s something confusing about Rosemary Moran. Well, more accurately, there’s something confusing about the 63-year-old’s eyes. Viewed separately, each side of Moran’s face tells a very different story. The skin under her left eye appropriately sags, hammocking into a bag befitting of any elderly woman. But the right side? It’s taut–with the healthy puff of a woman 20-years younger.

Moran shows off her curiously uneven look at Living Proof, the beauty company started in 2005 by Polaris Partners that’s raised over $50 million in funding and boasts actress Jennifer Aniston as a spokesperson and investor. Despite its focus on aesthetics, Living Proof’s headquarters are tucked amid biotech giants like Amgen AMGN and Biogen BIIB in Cambridge, Mass. The location’s strategic: It’s blocks away from MIT scientist Robert Langer’s laboratory, where Living Proof products’ technology gets its start.

Neotensil, the clear adhesive that compresses the skin under Moran’s right eye, is the most recent Living Proof development to come from Langer’s team. It was built off of Strateris, a trademarked product developed by Dr. Betty Yu, an expert in trans-dermal drug delivery, and dermatologists Rox Anderson and Barbara Gilchrest. A wearable polymer film that mimics young skin’s strength and elasticity, Strateris sits atop loose skin and reshapes it—think of it as the facial equivalent of Spanx’s tummy-shrinking undergarments. Its effects last for 16 hours, peaking three hours after application.

The complex science behind Strateris isn’t new to Living Proof. Its haircare line – which Aniston is the face of – is also covered in Langer’s fingerprints. “A lot of what we do at MIT is fundamental work that can be applied across the board,” Langer explains. One of the ingredients used in Living Proof’s shampoo, the volumizing Polyalkylaminoester-1 (PBAE), was developed from a library of tens of thousands of polymers that Langer and his colleagues organized to study gene therapy. “By making new polymers, you can solve all kinds of things, whether it’s cancer or gene therapy or haircare.”

Langer forayed into the beauty world because of Polaris founding partner Jon Flint. Despite being dad to two daughters, Flint was never interested in hair and skincare—until he heard about Bumble and Bumble’s 2000 sale to Estée Lauder EL for a reported $100 million. He called a Polaris associate and asked him to gather up industry reports and buy “literally dozens” of hair and skin products. Putting the products side-by-side, Flint realized all the bottles’ ingredients—though formulated differently—were pretty much identical. “This is B.S.,” he said to himself—and immediately called Langer. The duo organized a group of five scientists who had no beauty experience and asked them to come up with hair and skin products that created “results seen across the room.” Langer says the challenge was easy. “The competition was so bad. There was so little innovation compared to what I’d see in the pharmaceutical industry. In a way, it’s like low-hanging fruit.” But a lab full of scientists doesn’t automatically create a household product.

Living Proof brought on Aniston in October 2012. Though it was selling a decent number of products through QVC ($10 million in its first year, says Flint) and storefronts like Sephora and Ulta, it needed some extra starpower to generate buzz. Former PepsiCo Chief Marketing Officer Jill Beraud became the company’s CEO in late 2011 and helped Flint recruit the A-lister. With her longtime hairstylist Chris McMillan, Aniston tested the Living Proof shampoo for three months. The company’s R&D team then took her into their lab, showing her the science behind the shampoos, a tour reminiscent of a high school chemistry class. “And that was the one subject that I was good at,” Aniston laughs.

But there was a catch. Living Proof wanted more than a spokesperson; they wanted someone who was emotionally and financially vested in the company’s success. “I remember thinking, ‘Is this real life?’” says Aniston. She became a co-owner of the company a little over a year ago and launched the Perfect Hair Day campaign with McMillan. Since Aniston joined, Baraud says business has doubled. (Women’s Wear Daily reported that revenue’s around $100 million.)

Aniston isn’t worried about the risk of having a financial stake in the company. “I’m not nervous because I believe in it so much. I’m just waiting for it to happen.” So much so that she assists with product decisions: She recently talked the team out of changing the shampoo’s fragrance and also helped design their soon-to-open storefront in Cambridge. “[To be more than] the face of a product, you’re the much more invested in it and want it to be great. You want it to work. You want it to mean what it says.”

Despite her love of Living Proof’s shampoo, don’t expect Aniston to peddle Neotensil. As the face of skincare brand Aveeno JNJ, the actress isn’t allowed to officially promote another skincare product. But Baraud says Aniston’s able to continue working with both brands because Neotensil’s not competitive with Aveeno products. Neotensil only sells through Valeant’s VRX network of physicians—Living Proof struck a $75 million distribution deal with the pharmaceutical company in January that splits profits 60/40—and costs $500 for 7 weeks of use.

Langer says Neotensil is just the beginning for Strategis. “I’m no expert on what’s going to happen next, but I can say what could happen next.” The platform may be used to solve cellulite, help skin problems like psoriasis and xerosis, or house a long-lasting perfume. “There’s a whole range of medical and non-medical implications where you can put different agents in this kind of Spanx-like cream,” says Langer.

As for Aniston’s hopes for the company? “I just want women to know that there’s something out there that actually works and is worth their money. And that [Living Proof] just keeps growing.”